sugar · 10 million crawdads

125 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 33 and 35, and 4 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SUGAR · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 46, 61, 62, 63 and 127.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 61-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 127
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 8 sections: 96 keep time, 6 are fills, 8 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-126.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART S5
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEHAR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is sugar?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is sugar hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in sugar?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 46, 61, 62, 63 and 127.

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